thelinuxkid

The 17-20x is output token pricing: MiniMax M2.5 Standard at $1.20/M output vs Opus 4.6 at $25/M = ~21x. On input it's $0.30 vs $5.00 = ~17x. Blended (3:1 input:output) works out to roughly 19x. Curious where you're getting 0.07 and 0.55 — are you looking at M2.5 Lightning pricing or a different provider?

Why is it not true?

SWE bench is the standard bench to measure an LLMs coding capabilities

Well the API is certainly overpriced, no one will pay for that, and that's what these benchmarks use...

But the subscription is still under 20x

MiniMax M2.5 is beating Claude Opus 4.6 and MiniMax is 17x-20x cheaper….why isn’t anyone talking about this?

One my computer science professors would call the more ingenious and brilliant algorithms “sexy” and it would make all of us in our class sigh with excitement and passion.

Will the era of AI make the artistic side of programming more relevant or will it deem it unnecessary?

Does programming need to be brilliant, sexy, passionate in order for innovation to thrive?

Does the the artistic side of programming have important repercussions in humanity and innovation such as Guillermo del Toro describes here in relation to images? (Of course programming doesn’t need to make you cry, although it can, but crying in the case of programming would be “fueling innovation)